Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospects. Leading the list are the twin menaces, huge budget and trade deficits. The trade gap weakens the U.S. economy by diverting American dollars abroad, and the enormous borrowing needed to finance the budget shortfall threatens to push interest rates higher and stunt growth. Says Hugh Johnson, a portfolio strategist for First Albany, a securities brokerage firm: "People went to sleep about the deficit, but they will probably wake up to it this year." Johnson is also skeptical of the current wave of bullish sentiment: "When the prevailing view is one of near unanimous optimism, that is when you have...
...Baker again opposed Reagan, this time as head of Bush's presidential campaign. Always the pragmatist, Baker had Bush pull out of the race just before the California primary to keep alive a shot at the vice-presidential spot. When Bush got the call, Baker became a key strategist for the Reagan campaign. On the recommendations of trusted advisers, Reagan chose the newcomer as his White House chief of staff...
...press conference held before the service Jackson announced that Lamond Godwin, a key Jackson campaign strategist and the political director of Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, will be an Institute of Politics fellow in the spring semester...
...direct way. Rather, her agenda is highly personalized. Nancy Reagan is single-minded in her intention "to protect Ronnie," and to that end she is a hard-eyed judge of the officials serving him. "Her first concern is the people around the President," says one of those people, Reagan Strategist Stuart Spencer, "because she knows that they are the ones who will make things happen." Again and again, she has used her leverage to effect important personnel changes right up to the Cabinet level. There is now a rather effective upstairs-downstairs alliance between her and the leading West Wing...
...scheduled departure of forceful conservatives left many members of the New Right dismayed. Those whose stature stands to increase: Baker, a moderate whose pre-eminent position in the West Wing is now undisputed; Richard Darman, a capable Baker ally and legislative strategist; and Craig Fuller, an aide to Meese...